Residence Permits in Qatar

Work and Residence Permits in Qatar

You will need to arrange for the employee’s work and residence permits within seven working days of the employee’s arrival in Qatar.

Before these applications can be submitted, your employee will have to take a medical test at one of the hospitals approved by the Government (Click hereto see a list of the hospitals) and bring the following to the hospital:

Passport (copy)

Employment visa (copy)

Four passport-sized photographs

The appropriate fee

If your employee passes the medical test, a medical certificate will be issued.

The information that is required to be submitted in an application for a work permit and a residence permit is shown in the table below. The application for a work permit should be made to the Ministry of Labour. An application for the residence permit can also be made online. Click here to access. A residence permit can be issued for one, two or three years.

Employment Visa1

Work Permit1

Residence Permit

Completed application form

Submit approval letter from the MOL2

Available from MOL2

Typed in Arabic and English

Employment contract

–

Yes

–

Medical certificate

–

Yes, copy

Yes, original

Commercial registration of the business

Yes, copy

Yes, copy

Yes, copy

Immigration card of the business

Yes, copy and original

Yes, copy

Yes, copy

2 passport sized photos of the employee

–

Yes

Yes

Employee’s passport

Yes, copy

Yes, copy

Yes, original

Employment visa

–

Yes, copy

Yes, original

Sponsor’s passport (if sponsor is an individual)

–

–

Yes, copy

Fee (QR)

200

–

1,200 per year

1- If the employee had previously been employed in Qatar and has not left the country for at least two years since the employment ended, a letter of consent from the previous employer is also required.

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